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...Esther Williams, 22, hazel-eyed, streamlined Hollywood aquabelle, became an unwitting accessory to crime last week when one Allen Artenchuck confessed the theft of six reels of Esther's film, Bathing Beauty, from a Brooklyn theater on the grounds that "Esther Williams is the most gorgeous creature I have ever seen. When I could not have her, I made up my mind to get the film...
Rose (Lucille Bremer), the eldest, is merely waiting for a proposal, which at length she gets. Esther (Judy Garland) is tremulously interested in the shy basketball player (Tom Drake) next door. Agnes (Joan Carroll) is still chiefly interested in things like swimming and hunting knives. Tootie (Margaret O'Brien) has a passion for letting her dolls die off so that she can bury them in the backyard...
Amid an atmosphere of multi-colored hatching suits in an ideal California setup, Esther Williams and Red Skelton run through the paces of another trivial, escapist musical. The big surprise is that "bathing beauty" Esther can actually swim...
...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
...Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told Author Forbes about the present draft of Lady Chatterley which had remained in Lawrence's bound notebooks for 18 years...